Sweet memories of waterfowl wonderlands

From Baffin Bay to Arkansas to North Dakota, magical moments cast lasting spell

Waterfowler Rob Sawyer and Chesapeake Bay retriever Nellie enjoy the final moments of a December morning hunt on desolate Baffin Bay that saw scores of ducks, including dozens of drake pintails, sail into the decoys.

Waterfowler Rob Sawyer and Chesapeake Bay retriever Nellie enjoy...

Angry black waves driven by a wind that would have had a name if this had been September exploded against the concrete dock of the boat ramp on the shore of Cayo del Grullo, the resulting spray immediately snatched by the gale and flung away into the December darkness.

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